With news reports that the Trump administration is considering a new “travel ban” to block men, women, and children currently traveling together through Mexico as a caravan from seeking asylum in the United States, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the White House and Congress…

Civil rights groups argue forced separation policy constitutes torture
A Salvadoran mother whose son was taken from her by U.S. immigration officials at the southern U.S. border seven months ago continues to fight for her right to be with her child. Today, she filed a lawsuit in the federal…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s newest hurdle to immigrants seeking to obtain lawful status and maintain secure lives in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to “public charge,” published today in the Federal…

As the U.S. government continues to accept comments on proposed regulations which would allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to jail children and families indefinitely and roll back basic requirements for how they are treated in custody, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has…

The National Immigrant Justice Center vehemently opposes new legislation introduced by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), S. 3478, which would require the automatic and indefinite jailing of all asylum-seeking families arriving at the U.S. southern border, permit family separation in a wide variety of…

An asylum seeker who remains separated from her four-year-old son and detained in a federal immigration prison nearly six months after immigration officers separated them at the southern border will bring legal action today to demand they be allowed to reunite.
The Salvadoran mother, referred to…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In its ongoing campaign to target immigrant families and fill the beds and coffers of the U.S. prison system, today the Trump administration issued regulations seeking to terminate a decades-old legal settlement that was created to protect the basic rights of immigrant children in…

One-hundred and seventy five immigrant and civil rights organizations sent a letter today to congressional appropriators urging them to reject the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) latest request for new funding to further expand the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention system…

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia granted class certification to unaccompanied immigrant youth whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred from federal children’s shelters into adult jails when they turned 18 without considering alternatives…

With the final deadline only hours away for the Trump administration to reunite 2,500 children with the parents who were taken from them at the border, hundreds of children remain stranded alone in the United States. At least 463 parents have been deported without their children, under traumatic…